The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

KING KALAKAUA used to peddle bananas in
Honolulu when he was boy.
A VIOLIN, made for Louis XIV, has Just been
gold at BudaPesth for So. 500
Miss ANNA DICKINSON, who has been very ill
at Honesdale, Pa, has so far recovered as to be
able take short walks.
H RIDER HAGGARD. the new literary comet,
is at Minnetonka, and every belle of the beach is
wondering if be will put her IN his next novel
ISAAC S. DEMENT,. a Chicago stenographer.
recently wrote /, 292 words in five consecutive
minutes with but one mistake. 1t would require
fast taker to down Mr. Dement,
GENERAL CoRLENA the ancient Mexican revo-
u ZIONIST, is much broken in health and there is
some public sentiment favor of pardoning
him. He has been in prison eleven years.
A LITTLE girl wasn't far wrong when she told
her Sunday school teacher, in answer to the
question. ''What is the worst thing about
money p that it was cause amt got any. !"
SENATOR EDMUNDs has, it is said received
retainer of $25. 900 to represent tbs Chicago
dressed beef interests in their battle with the
mission.
THE latest descriptive slang word is "skippy.'
1t is the one thing people ambitious of fashion
able distinction do not want applied TO them. To
say of party 1t is 'skippy" ought to break
hoStess's heart.
LORD LYONS, VINO mas Deeu III tuo OiPiOLualIc
service of England nearly fifty years. will shortly
be recalled from Paris at his own request as he
is almost seventy years old. His record is as
honorable as it is long.
THE correct pronunciation is Jee-kill not
Jeck-ill, in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" Robert
Louis Stevenson, the author of the story, is au-
thor1ty for this RECOMMENDATION, which Mr. Mans
field has adopted for the stage.
BILLY MCGLoRY. the famous New York dive
keeper ho tried farming after serving out mis-
sentence in prison. has retired from the calling
of agriculturalist in disgust His farmer neigh
bors in Westminster county would not speak to
Billy and he got lonesome.
LII HUNG CHANG, Viceroy of China, has chosen
Rev. C. D. Tenney to be tutor to his Mr..
Tenney some time ago resigned his place as mis-
sionary in China under the American board on
account of his independent religious opinions.
he has since remained IN CHINA.
PROF. ]. B. CRENsHAw. pupil of Dr. Sar-
gent, at Harvard. has been added to the faculty
of Randolph Macon College, Virginia, which is
reported to be the first college in the South to
give physical culture a place in its teaching
an equality with its leading subjects of study.
MINE Host LAUBAcH, of the American House,
Belvidere. N. j., has tired of prohibition. He
has conducted his house on the temperance plan
for year. and announces that he shall ap-
ply for a liquor license The other hotels
doing more business than he is. The temper
ancs advocates will try and induce him to change
his mind.
BLOOD and thunder novels are undoubtedly
bad for boys, but it is a curious fact that many
strong minded men seek heir intellectual recre-
alton in such literature. The late Prof. Spencer
F. Baird used to take up yellow back" after
he had gone through a great deal of trying men
tai exertion. He said such reading rested him
nothing else could.
Mr. WILLIAM F. Pool, the librariAn OF the
new 49, 900, 900 Newberry library of Chicago, has
begun the work of the organization. Plans
now being prepared for temporary building.
which will be part of the grand structure, which
is expected to cost $500, 900, and be the finest
library building in the world. Nothing else
would satisfy Chicago.
JOHN ANDERSEN, Philadelphia barkeeper
and a relative of Hans Christian Andersen, has
fallen heir to $500 900 by the death of his mother
in Copenhaeen Andersen was drawing six
beers when he received the dispatch. He let the
six glasses fall with a crash, .eaped over the bar
and executed wild dance. Then he hurried to
his employer and resigned.
JOSEF HOFFMAN,. a little German boy ten
years of age has been astonishing the musicians
and musical critics of London with his wonder
full skill as piano player He is quiet healthy
little chap. not at all like most youthful prodi-
gies He plays the most difficult pieces by Men
delssohp, Mozart, Chopin and others with re-
markable accuracy and expression.
AFTER the story about the snake which is used
to drive the cows home and that other snake
which performs the duties of ch-dog at
farm out on the Telegraph road. it remains only
catfish in the waters Of Mississippi City which
comes at call and gives able assistance to the
local fishermen by dragging one end OF mullet
SEINE
THE happiness that Thomas Day missed, when
the two girls he reared from childhood to select
one for his wife when she became old enough,
married two other men, may be inferred from
the circumstances of the death of Prince Pierre
Wittgenstein, of Russia. He has just died at
Kenleon, near Brest of grief for his wife, the
daughter of Breton fisherman, whom he had
educated
In Chill, where women are horse-car conduct
ors. the men who make a business of flirting
with the conductors called mosquitoes"
because they thickly around the
and great nuisance. AS the women are
young and pretty in their neat uniforms of blue
flannel aud a many-pocketed white pinafore
trimmed with frllls. it is not surprising that
they attract passengers.
IT is a bit odd, but Pay master r. G. Watkins.
of the United States navy. embezzler. now in
the San Quentin (Call penitentiary under SEN
tence of hard labor for three years. actually
draws a salary of 1922 year while in prison.
Under the conditions of his sentence he will
continue on half pay until the expiration of the
three years, when he will be dismissed in dis
grace from Uncle Sans service.
ONE of the most amusing incidents of this
non copyright period is the solemn advertise
ment of the California adapter of Rider Hag-
CARDS 'She" announcing that he has sold
share of his dramatization. has copyrighted the
same and will prosecute anbody infringing upon
it. So that if Mr.. Haggard attempted to bring
out in this country adaptotion by himself of
his own book he could be legally forbidden to
make use OF his own property
ROBERT TIRRELL. for MANY years a resident
of Rhode Island deserted from the British army
seventy-two years ago. when George III
king A few days ago Tirrell. who is now nine
ty-three years old, received a royal pardon for
his offense from the hands of his offended mon
arch's grand daughter, Queen Victoria and now,
after an absence of nearly three quarters of a
century he is about to return to his native land
that he may die among his kin and again the
places he knew before compelled to go into exile.
Mr. ED RICE relates in the Chicago Herald
that when Herr Won Buow, the pianist, in
Boston, playing in concerts. Napier Lowshian,